WEBVTT REPORTER: APD SAYS IT HAPPENEDTWO DAYS AGO THAT THEY KIDNAPPEDA TEENAGER FOR REVENGE.>> TURN TO YOUR RIGHT.REPORTER: POLICE LAPEL VIDEOSHOWS POLICE ARRESTED CHRISTALHOLLIDAY AND JUAN SAAVEDRAYESTERDAY.THEY ARE ACCUSED OF KIDNAPPINGAND THREATENING TO KILL ATEENAGE BOY.ACCORDING TO THE CRIMINALCOMPLAINTS, THEY CAN AT THETEENAGER ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONON CARLISLE AND CANDELARIA.HE TOLD OFFICERS HE WAS SHOT INTHE YEAR BEFORE THEY THREW HIMINTO THE BACK OF A BLACK CHARGER.THE BOY SAYS HIS LIMBS WERE TIED.HE CLAIMS THAT THEY TASED HIM 50TIMES.THE COMPLAINT SAYS DANGER OF HIMTO LOS LUNAS WITH A THROUGH HIMINTO A FIVE FOOT HOLE.THE BOY CLAIMS THEY THREATENEDTO KILL HIM IF HE TOLD POLICEAND MADE HIM PUT HISFINGERPRINTS ON A KNIFE ANDBULLET SO THEY COULD CLAIMSELF-DEFENSE.THE TEENAGER CLAIMS HE MANAGEDTO ESCAPE BACK IN ALBUQUERQUE.POLICE WERE ALREADY INSIDETALKING TO HIS FATHER.THE COMPLAINT SAYS THE TEENAGERSAID THE SUSPECTS LIKELYKIDNAPPED AND TORTURED HIMBECAUSE HE CARJACKED THEM THENIGHT BEFORE.THEY WERE ARRAIGNED IN FRONT OFA JUDGE TODAY.

Police: Couple kidnaps, tortures teen for revenge

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Updated: 1:00 AM EST Mar 11, 2017

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —

Police-lapel video shows Albuquerque, New Mexico police arresting Christal Holliday and Juan Saavedra on Thursday night. The two are accused of kidnapping, beating and threatening to kill a teenage boy.

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According to criminal complaints, the two kidnapped the teen Wednesday afternoon at a 7-Eleven. The teen told officers he was shot in the ear before the couple threw him into the back of a black Charger.

Once the boy was inside the vehicle, he says his wrists were zip tied and his ankles bound with rope. He claims they then tased him about 50 times before blindfolding him.

The complaint says Holliday and Saavedra then drove the teen to Los Lunas, where they threw him into a five-foot hole. The boy claims they threatened to kill him if he told police, but also made him put his fingerprints on a knife and bullet so they could claim self-defense, just in case.

The teen claims that once they drove him back to Albuquerque, he managed to escape and run home. When he got there, cops were already inside talking to his dad.

According to the complaint, the teen said Holliday and Saavedra likely kidnapped and tortured him because he carjacked them the night before.

Holliday and Saavedra were arraigned in front of a judge Friday. She set both of their bonds at $50,000 cash or surety.